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Death Racers

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

Directed by Roy Knyrim, this wild action adventure set in the future stars ICP and professional wrestler Scott "Raven" Levy in a no-holds-barred, cross-country race where the winners may be the sole survivors.

As the United States further degenerates into a cesspool of crippling pollution and violent crime, the "opiate" of the masses is a car race from New York City to San Francisco, with the only rules being to start on time and try to reach the finish line, by any means necessary.

The rides are customized by the drivers and are designed to dish out punishment on the opponents in this crazed amalgamation of a totalitarian government, reality TV and pop culture. The present is the path of roadway under the wheels and the future is in the rear view mirrors of this direct-to-video that breathes fire into familiar Sci-Fi themes.

CONSIDERING IT WAS an ASYLUM production it it one of their 5 star productions. The acting was still poor. The blood scenes were overdone and silly. And if you watch it for the "rape scene" the box claims it has, it would be a let down as the girl never really gets raped, just tied down and threatened from behind. The music background was hip-hop. The plot of the movie attempted to combine "Death Race 2000" with "Escape from New York City" with "Groove Tube" commentary. I believe this may be the best we can ever expect from Asylum. The title is misleading as there is not any actual racing as one might expect, rather the racers pretty much work together. And if you are an Insane Clown Posse fan, good news: They survive the whole movie, for what it is worth.

DEATH RACERS
Theasylum.cc
" Don't Get Me Wrong, I Like Jason Statham !"
Butt, This is an awesome `car wars' type film like the Original `Death Race' with Carradine & Stallone.
The cast (which we can discuss later),writers and director DID there jobs amazingly.
The cars were great and by Sota FX, They need to do those cars shows or go to the Las Vegas resort with Automobile Museum. There is a Scarface Car, Lesbo Web ? sports car, GI Joe-ish Jeep, and The ICP Clown Screamer...with Product Placement speakers.
The plot, YES, The plot moves along...You have a bad guy who isn't all bad and HEROES who love to kill anyone in their way.
Cast: Insane Clown Posse are very likable in a PENNYWISE from "IT" kind of way, Again setting Clowndom back aways .
Raven from WWE does a journeyman job as bad guy, Work more sir.
Dustin Fitzsimmons (guy with video camera) has the most to do besides ICP and his character goes thru some `bad ju-ju'.
Robert Pike Daniel as governor is quite a character, Not changing any views in a election year.
Damien Puckler (metal man) In a suit by Makeup Guru Joe Castro. Damien might have one of the BEST non-speaking roles, YOU just plain rock-Sir !Kind of a riff on Vernon Wells Mohawked Baddy from `Mad Max'.
Stephen Blackehart (tv host) was one of my first interviews with my old site and Is finally getting the meaty roles with Theasylum and Full Moon.
Minor( but favorable) mention goes to :
Jason Ellefson- He was great as a Scarface " Tony Montana" issued mess of a driver, This is a minor accolade, Because YOU WERE SO MEAN in "Street Racer" !
... Also Ken Hall and his fabricators and Chris Watson for your editing prowess on trailer.

This movie plays like a movie that was created to star ICP, yet they fall flat in the performance either because they cannot act or, as it appears, the did not want to be there. This movie should be an action packed fast paced sci-fi, instead it is slow, tedious, weakly sci-fi. The cross-country race, an homage to the recent blockbuster Death Race and the original Death Race movies, takes a slow motion approach to the race. While two of the cars appear to have the potential for speed the "ice-cream" truck driven by ICP appears to have the top end speed of a golf cart.

In a potentially interesting twist to the sci-fi race genre, the film makers have inserted news feeds ala reality TV which could satirize the blurring of news and entertainment. Unfortunately, because of the slow race speed, poor blocking of the action scenes, and painfully monosyllabic dialogue, not much is needs recapping. This mass media angle just becomes filler to pad out the 85 minute length of the movie.

Nothing about this movie is well executed. ICP seems to have trouble portraying themselves, acting more like ICP imitator instead of the actual ICP. Sadly, they may give the best performances. The settings are poorly piked to be a dystopic future. The sound editing is poorly equalized. The soundtrack is rehashed and repeated to the detriment of the film. The action is slow and poorly executed. The cast of extras is small and they almost never run away from their predictable deaths.

Typically I am a fan of the mockbuster films from Asylum Films. I appreciate the low budget choices that are often needed to propel their tongue and cheek versions of blockbusters straight to video store shelves. At times they can be creative with their use of story and try to work within their own limits to watch a movie that is watchable at least once. That is not the case in Death Racers. This has the poor acting of Transmorphers without the story of Snakes of a Train. In this day and age of digital movie making weekend high school projects often look better than this film.

I found this dvd to be some what intertaining. There were a few dry humor spots but in all I got alot of hearty belly laughs out of it! Worth the buy.

For starters this movie is poorly filmed and edited. If you're excited about the gory scenes, don't be. They only show something happening about 3 times during the movie otherwise they just turn the camera away and you are forced to use your imagination. The story is pretty interesting and would be better if some more money had been put into it. You constantly have to turn the volume up and down to understand what people are saying especially during scenes in the mayor's office. I also noticed that a number of the driving scenes of hitting people and running them over were the same exact frames! I was like, is this deja vu or are they really just plugging the same scenes back in later in the movie. So I rewound and found that they were certainly the same frame.

Bottom line: If you're looking for a quality movie this definitely is not one. If you want a movie that you can watch and laugh at while you get drunk or something then go nuts. It's only 5 bucks.

I have been tryin to find this movie everywhere and its always been ove $20 so i was excited when i found it. Came in good time and worked and did not skip. The dvd case did have a chunk missing from the bottom of it but I did not care. I was just excited to watch it!

For a laugh I rented this movie because it featured the Insane Clown Posse. I figured there would at least be a few laughs to get out of it. With a name like "Death Racers" you know it's going to be anything but cinematic gold. However I couldn't even bare to sit through the first 10 minutes of this film. I found myself skipping through chapters, looking for anything even sorta worth seeing. Nothing.

The acting by everyone in this film is horrible. The dialog scenes are full of awkward silences, as if people are either trying to remember their lines. That or whoever wrote the script wanted a lot of silence among a group of people while they stared at each other, posing (or in the case of Shaggy 2 Dope, bouncing around and throwing his hands in peoples faces).

The story itself leaves a lot to be desired. It's what I'd consider trailer park quality science fiction. A bunch of "badasses" (gangsters, hookers and independent rappers) go driving their ridiculous vehicles around a dusty set (over filtered to the point you can't stand staring at the gritty sepia screen), racking up points for killing people (awful special effects - fake body parts that spurt a gush of blood after being tapped by a meat cleaver) in search of some criminal who wants to poison the drinking water. If they kill him, they're granted freedom. The gangsters, ex-soldiers and hooker apparently have killed people so it makes sense they'd be in prison... BUT in this futuristic dirt world ICP are in prison because their music is violent.

The Insane Clown Posse end up being the main draw for this film, essentially the main characters, and while they can usually pull a few smiles or a chuckle when on-screen, they couldn't pull it off in this abomination. I'm sure many fans of the clowns will disagree in a fit of loyal rage but remember, I'm a fan and them being in it was the reason I even rented the damn thing. It's obviously a creation of friends of fans of the group, but leaves a lot to be desired, even for the most hardcore fans of their music.

Which reminds me, the entire soundtrack is a non-stop mix of clips from ICP songs. They're all horribly misplaced, they re-use the same songs over and over, and honestly the music didn't belong where they placed it and it added nothing. (If you've seen ICP's film "Big Money Hustlas", it was pretty much the same thing only it was the actual song instead of instrumentals.)

Don't waste you time, "Death Racers" is only going to rob you of precious life you'll never get back.

WE ordered this in October and have not received it YET. After several weeks I e mailed the seller and told him we hadn't got it. We order from Amazon all the time and have never had this happen before. The seller appologized and said he would send it asap. Well we still don't have it. I can't believe someone would do this. I have even e mailed him again but this time he hasn't answered.I quess this a good way to make money, just take the money and don't send the product. I'm going to have to complain now to amazon.didn't want to.

This is a movie similair to Death Race with Jason Straham but not quite. It has Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope in it, and it shows pretty much how psycho killer southwest stranglin these guys are. [...]! If you dont already know, J and Shaggy are two wicked clowns from a psycho killin, hatchet swingin rap group called Insane Clown Posse. They also made their own movie called Big Money Hustlas, which I think is a great movie and everyone should check it out if you like this movie. This movie has some sweet body exploding, car crashing, just plain old messed up death scenes with sum pretty alright special effects for how low budget of a movie it is. You should really check it out if you down with the clowns and even if you just like [...] unique kills.